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Thursday, March 23, 2017

What a fun packed weekend.We left Brisbane on Thursday morning - Lynda was the Driver and I did my knitting . . .Of course we had to stop at Warwick - Glenrose Patchwork - I bought a Cottage Garden Thread and a hanger (for a friend).Off again on the long haul . . knitting . . chatting . .Thursday night dinner at the Peel Inn.....most of the bloggers had arrived.Friday morning ...some stitching in our cabin and them off to the Peel Inn for lunch.A trip out to Cottage on the Hill - a few more necessary purchases.

Friday Night was in the BBQ area of the caravan park. A lot of us had brought some stitching along....quite a lot of EPP happening - including me.

These are for a Charity Quilt that one of my Groups is making.We also had Show & Tell. A really good variety of projects...not all finished of course.(might add some photos here later on...)It was a late night for some...Saturday - the day we all go for - Sewing Day - this year the tutor was Bonnie Sullivan. Our project was to decorate a bamboo steam cooker. We were given a circle shape of an antique quilt, some preprinted fabric to stitch over and decorate, some felt, threads, buttons and fabric for a pincushion.

A really lovely project and a totally different concept to have fabric with the design already on it. This is a new line for Bonnie - she has a range of patterns in a similar vein - preprinted panels but plenty of scope to make them your own. The saying in the photo is printed on a background - we stitched over the wording and then appliqued using feather stitch. There is a need;ebook too - printed fabric with stems and leaves and you add buttons for the flowers...I'll post it ...soon??...maybeThere is nothing I can find on Kerry's web site at the moment but I expect there will be.There were a couple of "lucky" prizes handed out - random things like coloured nail polish - coloured underwear....I collected two of Bonnie's patterns:

Sadly, Kerry has decided that 10 years of GDITC is enough - this was the last one. I think a lot of people would have come this year knowing it was the last......but I am sure some other plan will be 'hatched'.

We also had been given a design from Bonnie to use in any project we liked to be given as a swap present. I made a sewing folder, which Marilyn received.

and I received this bag from a non blogger (Marcelle).

Sadly and surprisingly there were some people who did not come & say thank you for their present. (obviously not bloggers.)Here are the Bloggers of 2017 - we were lucky to have Mr Bonnie take the pictures for us.

Saturday night back to the BBQ area where we enjoyed a BBQ and our bloggers swap,I gave these - a Design Board and a pin cushion in a tuffet style - hard to photograph - Dzintra received it.

And I got this lovely set of mug bag, coaster and scrap bag from Diddles.

I will be looking for a matchy matchy mug to go with it - thanks again Diddles!

During the weekend I managed to finish two knitted squares - when people ask what I'm knitting I just say - squares to make into blankets for cold needy people...love the variegated wool in these:

On the way home we saw a rainbow - it's not that clear in the photo but it was magnificent...and we could see the end of it - unfortunately someone had beaten us and stolen the pot of gold.😞

Sadly, the end of a fun weekend - it's a long drive but it is so good to catch up with these lovely ladies. It was a little sad knowing so many regulars were missing...(Kate - I was really hoping for some more lemon butter , , . LOL) and sad that there is no more official GDITC...but the wonders of modern technology allow us to stay in contact and no doubt some other plan will come to fruition . . .

Sunday, March 5, 2017

It seems the only posts I do at the moment are for FNWF and FNSI - life (work) is far too busy at the moment to do much else.Friday night - did a bit if sewing - perhaps a bit of napping too - but fortunately Saturday was also a sewing day.Here are some of the things I worked on . . .